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GILLMAN & BEAMISH.

Paint Brush.

Patented Aug. 27., 1867 N: PETERS. Pmum n m, Washington, a. c.

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HENRY B. G-ILLMA'N AND HORACE S. BEAMISH, OF .NHLFORD, MASSACHU- SETTS.

Letters Patent No. 68,066, dated August 27, 1867.

IMPROVED PAINT-BRUSH.

TO ALL PERSONS TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:

Be it lmown that we, HENRY B. GILLMAN and Honnon S; Bmnrsn, of Milford,in the county of Worcester, and State of Massachusetts, have invented anew and useful improvement in Paint-Brushes; and do hereby declare thesame tobe fully described in the following specification, andrepresented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a sideelevation, and V Figure 2 a'vert-ical and longitudinal section of apaint-brush made in accordance with our invention.

Figure 3 is a section of such a. brush with the bristle-spreaderseparate from the handleand its screw, such handle, screw, and spreaderbeing shown in fig. 2 as formed of one piece of wood.

In the drawings a denotes a tubular case timing the form of the frustuinof a cone, and also having a head, I), of wood or other proper materialinserted and fixed in it at its larger end, such head being heldinplaceby means of screwsfgoing through the case a, and being screwed intothe head. A female screw, 0, is formed centrally through the said headand for reception of a correspondingmale screw, 01, formed on the handleA. -I-n advance of the said screw is a conical or tapering spreader, c,which may either constitute apart of or be fixed to the handle, as shownin fig. 2, or may be separate from it, as shown in fig. 3. This spreaderis within the case a. After a mass of bristles, B, may have been placedwithin the case a, and sons to project therefrom, as represented in thedrawings, the spreader is to be, inserted smaller end foremost into suchcase, and among the bristles, and the handle is to be screwed into thehead I), so as to force -the sprea ler forward and crowd the mass ofbristles laterally in radial directions against the innersurface of thecase. In this way the bristles may be connected with the handle, and bevery firuily held in place within the socket or-case a. When thebristles may have become Worn up by use they may be easily removed fromthe case, and others may be substituted for them. This may beaccomplished by the painter himselfland thus save the handle and case;Another mode in which we havecontemplated the application of ourinvention is shown in fig. 4, wherein the head 6 is repre sented asafiixed to the handle A, ancl screwed into the case a. This, however, weby no means consider as good a construction as those exhibited in figs.2 and 3.

We claim the combination and arrangement of the conical case a with thehead 6 fastened in it, and handle A screwing through it,., and carryingthe cone e fastened to the handle, all as hereindescribed.

' HENRY 13. GILLMAN,

HORACE S. BEAMISH.

Witnessest R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

